GREETINGS: Home entrepreneurs such as Barbara Sybal, here with cards she promotes via the  Internet, led developers to offer houses prewired for computer age.

... [Barbara] Sybal runs a international greeting card business on the Internet that sells to customers in Canada, the United States and Europe. 

Her Web site gets 500,000 hits monthly, a phenomenal number for a fledgling three-year-old company that is run from her 1,300-square-foot house. She also has a 1-800 [1-888-278-3672] number ... 

``Because I have a lot of foreign customers, some of them may think they're dealing with a conglomerate or something,'' says Sybal with a laugh ... 

Sybal represents 25 artists including Barbara Wooster of New York and Vancouver's Chris McClure whose images she reproduces on greeting cards for her company, Art a Deux. 

Virtually every nook and cranny of her home is devoted to work. On the walls of her home hang artworks from her licensees. In the basement, hundreds of thousands of cards represent her inventory ...